Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Brazil Initiative

Geri Augusto

Visiting Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs and Africana Studies
Watson Institute Faculty Fellow
Visiting Faculty Fellow, Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES)

Research areas: Environmental Change; Race, Ethnicity and Slavery

Geri Augusto teaches science and society in the global south, public policy, and black transnationalism. She is currently researching Brazilian quilombola fishing communities’ use of digital means and ideas on territory, environment and justice. She collaborates in Brazil with the Steve Biko Institute and with UNEB in the Abdias Nascimento Humanities Program.